Junior Backend Engineer

Quick Facts

• Role: Junior Backend Engineer
• Focus: Backend development for event processing and analytics
• Team stack: Scala, Apache Kafka, ElasticSearch, Clickhouse, Kubernetes, cloud (Azure, GCP)

Description

Synerise is seeking a highly motivated Junior Backend Engineer to design, build, and evolve backend for an event processing and analytics platform powering AI-driven customer experience. The role emphasizes high-volume data processing, performance optimization, translating requirements into detailed designs, and analyzing large data stores to uncover insights.

Responsibilities

• Develop architecture and design patterns to process and store high volume data sets
• Develop software with a core focus around optimisation and performance
• Translate complex functional and technical requirements into detailed design
• Perform analysis of vast data stores and uncover insights

Requirements

• Programming skills in any JVM language (Java, Scala, Kotlin) or Rust; strong willingness to learn quickly
• Basic experience with at least one web framework; understanding of how web applications work
• Familiarity with SQL or NoSQL databases and basic database queries
• Hands-on experience using AI coding (Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot) as part of daily engineering
• Decent troubleshooting and analytical skills with a methodical approach
• Passion for building tools and learning new technologies
• Strong analytical and communication skills
• Preferred: existing GitHub/GitLab portfolio or personal projects
• Preferred: experience with microservices architecture
• Preferred: basic knowledge of AI/ML concepts

Benefits

• Work on a production-grade, large-scale system used by enterprise customers worldwide
• Real technical challenges around performance, data volume, and distributed systems
• Opportunities for continuous technical growth and deeper ownership over system design
• Support from experienced engineers and a strong engineering culture
• Influence on architectural and technical decisions within your team